postr/StutterApril 7, 2022

Seeking Advice

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Seeking Advice I am 19 now and I feel like throughout covid and online school I lost the confidence I once had and now have crazy anxiety. This anxiety definetly started after 2 years of having less people time than usual. This anxiety also amplified my stutter greatly.I’m at a breaking point right now where I hide and see public speaking as the absolute worst thing possible. I really just want to know from the people who have stutters and achieved fluency or have seen drastic improvements what do you reccomend as an efficient way to go from stuttering to speaking with confidence and fluently. I know I’m my brain I can achieve fluency I don’t doubt myself one bit because if I am able to sit in a room and speak to myself completely fluent then go to people and stutter there is some mental barrier there that I feel like I can break down. I’m really just seeking advice on how to really make progress towards fluency in a way that has been proven to work.

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Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience

Subthemes

Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment